The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.

To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).